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“You have to be willing to take risks. You may fail. Be honest about your failures. It is how you recover from those failures that’s important.” That was some of the advice that SPP Acting Dean and Professor of Comparative Politics Julia Buxton gave to CEU students during the inaugural SPP Faculty Practitioner Career Talk on January 19. She also urged students to look for – and seize – opportunities as they come up. “Life is short. Try to take advantage of the time in your life when you have fewer responsibilities – family, a mortgage.

“The SPP Career Services Newsletter was an essential source of information for my internship search between my two academic years and I continue to refer to it now for my job search for after graduation,” explained second-year MPA student Aron Suba. He is just one of the more than 100 public policy master’s students at CEU’s School of Public Policy who receive the newsletter, which is issued every 2-3 weeks during the academic year. Second-year MPA student Mara Tissera Luna also relies on the newsletter.